Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:32:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up: block devices to disappear! Message-ID: <199806240432.VAA23173@kithrup.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980623185331.13456F-100000.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@orkan.canonware.com> References: <199806240130.SAA06590@kithrup.com>
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.980623185331.13456F-100000.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@orkan.canonware.com> you write: >Whoa, I'm confused now. Sean, you appear to be saying that by removing >block devices from FreeBSD, it is no longer possible to do direct, >un-cached (i.e. raw) accesses. Actually, I should have followed up myself - a big question is: will all of the benefits of block devices still be present? If so, fine. If not, this should be more carefully thought out. I admit that the benefits are fairly small -- but there are some advantages of block devices over character devices. Ideally, really, with DEVFS, there are only special files, not "block special" or "character special" files. (Better people than I have debated the merits of having them at all, far more completely than I am willing or able to, so I won't bother ;).) I am not automatically opposed to this change... but I do question its worth. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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